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I have custody of my three year old daughter, according to my divorce agreement. Does that mean that I am free to decide where we live, or does her father have some say?

 

The exact answer would depend on the particular wording of your divorce agreement. However, in the absence of anything specific, custody relates to within Israel, so that you would not be entitled to move abroad with the child, even if there was no specific order forbidding her from being taken out of the country. Within Israel, while technically, according to section 15 of the 1962 Legal Capacity and Guardianship Act, decisions about where a child should live are supposed to be made jointly between parents, courts do not usually interfere to prevent a parent with custody from choosing where he/she live within Israel. However, in certain circumstances, the court may be asked to intervene in this connection, within a guardianship file that either parent may open.